0 present participle of economize
1 to try to save money by reducing the amount that you are spending:
Simplifying, that is, learning to live with fewer material possessions by economizing, yields a surplus of time which can itself be employed for better ends.
A public accustomed to seeing science as an economizing tool could well become discouraged by such prospects.
Success depended upon concentrating force at the decisive point, economizing it elsewhere, and employing surprise to multiply the impact of the offensive.
The role of agricultural cooperatives is shown to help overcome these limitations in order to take advantage of the transaction-cost economizing properties of family farms.
Indeed, beyond the point of showing science's historical tendency toward economizing on effort, science education might even become self-defeating.
Arms-length, anonymity, self-interest, and value-free economizing are not all there is to the purchase and the sale.
As they saw it, economizing on transaction costs was a comparative static approach to a decision that had a dynamic of learning and innovation at its core.
Williamson has argued that economizing on transaction costs is the main drive in the decision about an efficient governance form.
